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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Jimmy Kimmel Might Have Struck the Final Blow Against the GOP Health-Care Plan  —  After weeks of negotiations, last week House Republicans reached a compromise that they said could finally allow them to repeal and replace Obamacare.  It involves letting states opt out of certain Obamacare provisions …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trumpcare's long odds in the Senate, explained by a Republican senator
Discussion: Politico and Hit & Run
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   Jimmy Kimmel's powerful, heartfelt Obamacare plea crystallizes the GOP's dilemma
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
GOP suffers surprise defection on Obamacare repeal
New York Times:
Ivanka Trump's West Wing Agenda  —  A month before Donald J. Trump was elected president, he and his aides watched his daughter's coolly composed surface crack open.  —  Inside Trump Tower, the candidate was preparing for a debate when an aide rushed in with news that The Washington Post …
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Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Adviser Jared Kushner Didn't Disclose Startup Stake  —  Investments show ties to Goldman Sachs, George Soros and Peter Thiel as well as a number of loans  —  Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, didn't identify on his government financial disclosure form …
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Report: Kushner didn't disclose investment in startup with Goldman Sachs, Soros links  —  Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner failed to disclose his stake in a real-estate startup with ties to Goldman Sachs and billionaire investor George Soros, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.
Discussion: RedState
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's dizzying day of interviews  —  President Donald Trump questioned why the Civil War— which erupted 150 years ago over slavery — needed to happen.  He said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong-Un, the violent North Korean dictator who is developing nuclear missiles and oppresses his people …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Video captures fistfight between passengers on flight to Los Angeles  —  (CNN)One minute passengers were settling into their seats for the 11-hour flight from Tokyo, Japan, to Los Angeles.  —  The next they were scrambling out of the way as a male passenger became irate and began throwing punches …
Discussion: The Root, AOL and CBS Los Angeles
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Rachael Burford / Daily Mail:
Two men brawl on a plane
Discussion: Boing Boing
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
One Move That Could Solve the GOP's Tax-Cut Math Problem (Maybe)  —  Some Republicans weigh 15-year, 20-year or 30-year budget window to let Congress pass longer temporary tax cut  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has said he wants to cut taxes, big-league, and Republicans …
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump: The US government needs a good ‘shutdown’ if Senate rules don't change
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Stephen Colbert Demolishes Trump for Insulting ‘Face The Nation’ Host John Dickerson … President Donald Trump insulted Face The Nation host John Dickerson and Stephen Colbert is pissed.  —  As the Late Show host explained in his monologue on Monday, during his CBS colleague's Sunday morning interview …
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Poll: Ossoff in dead heat with Handel in Georgia's 6th  —  An internal poll conducted for Democrat Jon Ossoff's campaign shows him locked in a dead heat with Republican Karen Handel in the June 20 runoff to represent Georgia's 6th District.  —  The poll was conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research …
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider:
Jon Ossoff's campaign readies a $5.2M ad blitz
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Orioles' Adam Jones berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park  —  BOSTON — Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones was berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park while a bag of peanuts was thrown at him Monday night, calling it one of the worst cases of fan abuse he has heard in his career.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Coup Against Jim DeMint Threatens To Tear Apart Heritage Foundation  —  There are two narratives being spun about the current turmoil at the Heritage Foundation.  Last week, Politico reported that the non-profit conservative foundation's board planned to permanently oust former Sen. Jim DeMint …
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:   The Fight for Control of the Heritage Foundation
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Former GOP chairman ‘cannot support’ new healthcare bill  —  Former House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) told GOP leadership he cannot support the revised GOP health care bill, Upton said in a local radio interview on Tuesday.  —  Upton told Michigan's WHTC that the deal struck …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Wilbur Ross Says Syria Missile Strike Was ‘After-Dinner Entertainment’ at Mar-a-Lago  —  Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria.
Pat Pheifer / Star Tribune:
Minnesota GOP, DFL rebuke racist Facebook post about Ellison  —  State Republican and DFL leaders condemned Facebook post, which was removed.  —  The Facebook page from Minnesota's Seventh Congressional District Republican Party on Monday night featured a post with racist …
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Democrats confident they can block Trump's agenda after spending-bill win  —  Democrats believe they have set the stage to block President Trump's legislative priorities for years to come by winning major concessions in a spending bill to keep the government open.
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Josh Magness / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
No money for Trump's wall, plus 6 other GOP issues missing from $1T spending bill
Discussion: Power Line and The Last Tradition
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue:
Rep. Cummings busts Pence: “I warned the vice president directly” about Michael Flynn  —  Among the many scandals dogging Donald Trump's administration is the failure to properly vet disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who had ties to foreign governments and received payments …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Megyn Kelly will travel to Russia for Putin  —  MORE FROM: … Megyn Kelly is getting off to a great start at NBC.  Page Six has exclusively confirmed that she will travel to Russia next month to moderate a session with President Vladimir Putin at a key international conference.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Pro-Trump farmers now worry he was serious about NAFTA repeal  —  Washington (CNN)Bob Hemseath, whose corn-farming business hinges on the whims of mother nature, is comfortable with uncertainty.  —  But as the fourth-generation farmer heads onto his northeast Iowa farm for the 2017 planting season …
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
“If You Keep F**king With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live” … When Donald Trump's  —  casino business went bankrupt in 2009, a lawyer whose clients stood to lose more than a billion dollars told police and the FBI that he got a menacing phone call from a man with a thick New York accent who threatened his family.
Jim O’Sullivan / BostonGlobe.com:
Speculation is stirring about a Seth Moulton presidential bid  —  He has won praise from a neoconservative magazine editor, taken star turns on HBO and “This American Life,” and likened President Trump's political ascendance to that of Adolf Hitler's.  —  Just months into his second term …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump rally altercations could add to legal woes  —  A pro-Donald Trump biker gang's physical handling of protesters at a weekend rally could add to the president's legal woes, with one attendee considering a fresh lawsuit as protesters already suing over violence at rallies last year plan …
 
 
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